Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-15

| Dody TO room on the second floor and
! placed il on bed. He continued to live
in the house. and at night slept in the
same bed with the body of his wife. This
| went on for nine days. Yesterday the
state of things was discovered by a man
looking for Mrs. Agnew to do washing.
a Brutal Smuggling Match.
New YORK, January 14th.-A bloody
contest with two-ounce gloves, to finish,
was fought on Long Island tonight by the
light weights Billy Davis Q10 pounds) and
Eugene Hornbacher (120 pounds Davis
was the more scientific. In the sixth
round he caught Hornbacher on the jugu-
lar, knocking him down and nearly ending
the fight Had Davis gone in on this
point he could have won, but he took
things easy, 10 wear his man out, but
Eornbacher was slayer. Davis knocked
him down again in the tenth round, and
then both fought carefully till the
fifteenth round when Hornbacher
cut Davis lip open. Desperate
slugging followed for four rounds. At the
end of the nineteenth round Hornbacher
hit Davis on the jaw a terrific blow, and
the blood gushed from his mouth as he
fell. Davis was in a very bad condition
for the next five rounds, but was kept up
with brandy and managed to get in several
facers, but having a losing fight. At the
close of the twenty-ninth round both were
very weak, and the referee ordered them
to fight one more round for a decision.
Neither could knock the other out, how
ever, and the fight was declared draw on
the thirtieth round.
A Threatened Tie-Up.
New YORK, January 14th.-There are in
dications of renewed trouble between the
Broadway Railway Company and their
employees, which may lead to another tie
up. The conductors and drivers want an
increase of 25 cents per day in their wages,
which the company declines to grant. The
Superintendent of the road says he does
not think the men will be so foolish as to
carry out their threat, but if they do the
company will fight it out to the end. There
are reports that the company has secured
great number of men from Philadelphia in
the event of their own hands quitting
work.
Henry Georges Boomerang.
NEW YORK, January y14th.-Commissione
Cummings, who is intimately acquainted
with Rev. DR.. McGlynn, said this morning
that McGlynn did not authorize and was
not in any way responsible for Henry
Georges statements in the Standard in
reference to Archbishop Corrigan and the
attitude of the Catholic Church toward
local politics. Cummings added that Dr..
McGlynn would make public statement
within a few days which would set at rest
all questions as TO his position in the
matter.
Suit Against a Manager.
New YORK January 14th.-Willis P.
Sweetnam, the comedian and Minis
trel, recently brouehs suit against Man
ager Hayman, Of the Baldwin Thea
ter and Grand Opera House, San Fran
cisco, for $4,000 damages for breach
of contract. Hayman's counsel to-day,
before answering the complaint, asked
that Sweetnam be compelled TO file
bond for $3.50 for costs, asserting that the
complainant is nonresident. Judge
Dugree denied the motion, holding that
even actors bad homes somewhere, even
though they might be compelled 10 travel
about.
Lively Sleeper.
BosToN, January 14;h The body OF the
late Oliver Sleeper, supposed to be one OF
the victims of Mrs Robinson, the alie2ed
Sonlerville poisoner, was exhunIed to-day
at Mount Auburn and the internal organs
given to medical experts for examination.
This is the seventh body thai has been dis
inferred for the same purpose, and III the
other six cases large quantity oS arsenic
has been found. If arsenic is found in
Sieeper's body the investigation will con-
time, and the other bodies Will oe ex-
humed. 1t is alleged that Mrs. Robinson
poisoned Sleeper in order 10 obtain pos
session of some of his property, and it is
stated that at the coming trial of the woman
some new and startling revelations will De
developed.
Washington Notes
WASHINGTON. January 14th The House
-.
able report on the bill extending the juris-
diction of the lighthouse service to the San
Joaquin and Sacramento valleys.
The Senate Committee on the District of
Columbia this morning ordered an adverse
report on the nomination of J. c. Matthews,
of Albany, n. Y. (colored), as Register of
Deeds of this district
McQuade Nut Go.
NEW YORK, January 14th.-Judge Pratt,
of the Supreme Court, yesterday handed
down decision in the case of ex-Alderman
McQuade, denying the motion for stay of
proceedings pending an appeal. McQuade
was sentenced by Recorder Smythe to seven
years imprisonment at Sing Sing and fine
of $500. The effect of the denial of the
motion will be to cause his immediate
transfer to the State prison.
Sherman to Blaine.
New YORK, January 14th.-At the polit-
ical clubs there is a loud call for the publ
cation of the letter which Colonel Waiter
son, of the Louisville Courier Journal,
asserts General Sherman has written to
Blaine, declining to be the next Republican
candidate for the Presidency, and which
Watterson characterizes as exceedingly pic
turesque and racy.
Terrible Epidemic of Measles.
New YORK January 14th-The epidemic
of measles is still unabated. The former
rate of between nine and ten deaths o dav
is maintained The number of cases re-
ported vary between 400 and 500 in a week.
The recent resolution of the Health Board
calling upon doctors to be more careful in
reporting cases of contagious diseases, has
not yet had much effect. 1t is estimated
that about 700 to 800 cases have developed
in the city every week.
The State Sustained.
DEs MONIES Qa.), January 14th.-Judge
Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court,
fled here to-day his opinion in the case of
the Pullman Sleeping-Car Company against
the State of Iowa, asking for an Injunction
to prevent the State from collecting from
the railroads tax for sleeping-cars. The
company resisted the collection on the
ground that the tax was an interference
with interstate commerce. Brewer denies
the applications and sustains the State.
Satisfied with Nine Hours.
WASHINGTON, January 14th.-The Inter
national Union of Bricklayers at their
session to-day decided that they would
continue to work nine hours day, as in
the past, and that they would not combine
with the Knights of Labor, as requested.
| Four of Kind.
ST. LOUIS. January 14th.-Albert Odell,
James Lamb, John T. Reynolds and John
Stephens were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark,
at noon to-day for murder committed in
Indian Territory, December 20, 1885. 0dell
and Lamb killed a man named Edward
Pollard in Cherokee. l. T., for his money.
Stephens (colored) murdered his compa-
Mon, also colored.
| SANDER Suit Decided.
! BosToN, January 14th.-The jury in the
suit of Father Fitzgerald w. Archbishop